Tim Fisken is the frontside turn master from the 80’s. We just called him Torg Torgsen, which was his pen name for the Skimboard Magazine series of stories on a wide ranging subjects back in the day when Victoria published a magazine.

-Tex Haines

Here is an email recently received from Torg Torgsen

This is a board Tex made for me 15 years ago. 3″ fins, deep conclaves, a really unique vehicle. It was a duplicate of a Frankenstein experimental I lost to Reno Abellira. Tex had given me a twin fin of his around 97′. I had been having a blast riding it but the fins kept popping out and the tail was getting trashed. I cut over a foot off the tail and re glassed the bottom a few times due to delamination problems. I set up small fins on the rail as a quad and the board went really good. Reno had been living in Ensenada and a friend if mine had been surfing San Miguel and Todos with him. After I had Tex make this duplicate for me I sent the original model down to San Miguel for Reno to ride. He tripped out on the board, riding it several times, making new eliptical fins and re laminating the bottom for the 3rd time. Unfortunately someone he owed something to stole it along with several of his other boards. It’s whereabouts now is unknown.
There is truly a nexus of connections that bring all this small fin/ no fin/ flat bottom engineering together. I credit Tex for a lot of inspiration and knowledge in this area that many of these shapers think they are just now discovering.
Great to see that Quam has maintained his love for alternative equipment.
That’s Tyler holding the X-15 as well as some recent yellow fin off of the Coronados.
Thank you for that thread Dirk, ….really good stuff.

– Tim Frisken aka Torg Torgsen

Here is an example of articles that Torg Torgsen used to write in the Skimboard Magazine March/April 1988